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Spring Supplement 2011

CoverStory

The response of state lawmakers will be an important factor to the president’s challenge. Can state legislatures across the nation choose—and manage—to raise support for public colleges and universities while cutting government services wherever else possible?

Features

Robert G. Templin, Jr.

Community colleges are America's on-ramp to higher education for the majority of immigrant, minority, and first-generation college goers—the very populations who will need to be reached in large numbers if the nation is to achieve the president's goal. Here, Templin outlines five promising innovations that could be used by this sector to rise to the college completion challenge.

Bryan Cook and Terry W. Hartle

Diana Jean Schemo

The response of state lawmakers will be an important factor to the president’s challenge. Can state legislatures across the nation choose—and manage—to raise support for public colleges and universities while cutting government services wherever else possible?